(34) 5-30-2011: Continue to hold the debt limit hostage in order
to make more money for billionaires.

(35) 6-1-2011: Brought to the House floor a bill specifically blaming
President Obama's 2012 budget for raising the statutory
debt limit by $2.4 trillion dollars, a budget the very same
Republican-led Congress earlier passed.

(36) 6-6-2011: 6-3-2011: Pulled from the floor a Democratic resolution
to remove
soldiers from Libya, because it just might have passed.

(42) 6-20-2011: The GOP held a convention in New Orleans and hired
an Obama
look-alike to stand on stage and tell racist jokes. So +1
to the GOP for giving a man a job but -1,000,000 points for the
kind of job it was.

(43) 6-22-2011: I'm sad to report that the GOP didn't do a dang
thing to create jobs today, but I'll give them credit for not using
senior citizens for skeet shooting practice.

(44) 6-24-2011: Yesterday the Democratic Congress stood up on its
back legs and finally barked out what so many of us have been saying
for the past six months--- that the Republican Congress is actively
trying to stall
the economy. There, was that so harrrrrrrd?

(45) 6-27-2011: The Republican Congress voted to raise the debt
ceiling EIGHTEEN times for President Bush. Now they're holding
their breaths and pitching fits and perfectly willing to cause
world economic collapse just because that darned old spendthrift
Obama wants to eliminate their corporate jet depreciation tax credit.
Oy vey.

(46) 6-29-2011: Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) spent $9 million dollars
of his own money in his race for a senate seat in 2010 but afterwards
had his own company pay
him back to the tune of $10 million in "deferred compensation".
Is this illegal? Very probably, though it oddly resulted in a new
American job: Senator Ron Johnson. So way to go, GOP! Only ten
million more jobs to go.

(47) 7-1-2011: The GOP is on vacation until the 7th of July, even
though a world-altering problem with the debt ceiling is looming.
But don't worry, Democratic Senator Harry Reid and his left-wing
pals are
staying in Washington to get some real work done.

(48) The GOP was off for the 4th of July holidays.

(49) 7-6-2011: No new jobs to speak of but the GOP is working diligently
to keep their true constituency, Wall Street fat cats, employed
by attempting to roll back the financial
reforms passed last year.

(50) 7-8-2011: Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's bright
idea is to close tax loop holes.... and then give the accumulated
monies back to the rich in the form of reduced taxes. That's our
little non-job-makers!

(51) 7-11-2011: Speaker of the House John "Weepy-Boy" Boehner
admits that not raising the debt limit will
cost jobs. Ahhh, that explains everything. Atta boy, GOP!

(53) 7-15-2011: Finally. The GOP is doing some investigating, but
it's not about Wall Street or Rupert Murdoch. The target in their
cross hairs this time is <groan> Planned
Parenthood. Again. This is the official definition of insanity,
you know.

(54) 7-18-2011: Not only does the GOP continue to insist on slashing
federal spending, which will cost jobs, jobs and more jobs, but
now they want to hack
the Constitution.

(55) 7-20-2011: Are you ready? They supported a bill that would "amend
the Securities Act of 1933 to specify when certain securities issued
in connection with church plans are treated as exempted securities
for purposes of that Act." Ooooh, I'm all a-tingle.

(57) 7-25-2011: Speaker of the House John Boehner walks out of
a debt ceiling meeting because that mean old pwesident Obama wouldn't knife
his health care plan. Poor widdle John.

(58) 7-27-2011: No new jobs but at least 4000 workers have hit
the bricks as a result of the GOP's jihad against airport
unions.

(59) 7-29-2011: The GOP wasted the past two days on its version
of a debt ceiling bill that even its own party won't
vote for. John Boehner is a miserable failure as both the Majority
Leader and as a shepherd for these hard times.

(60) 8-1-2011: The GOP breaks out the fiddles while the economy
burns. The tune they favor is the "Screw The Poor and the
Elderly" polka, and they're hitting the coda HARD.

(61) 8-3-2011: The GOP is screwing everyone over, except the airlines
who are reaping fat profits by stealing what used to be taxes,
by refusing
to fund the FAA.

(63) 8-8-2011: The GOP is on vacation but their henchmen continue
to usurp the voting process by sending out phony
absentee ballots.

(64) 8-10-2011: The GOP is proposing something called the REINS
act which essentially gets rid of safety inspectors. So less
jobs and more poison in your children's food. It's win-win, uh,
lose-lose, uh, whatever!

(65) 8-12-2011: Employees
of Boeing had their jobs illegally pulled out from underneath
them. Guess which political party is doing their best to see that
these employees don't have their day in court. Bingo!

(66) 8-15-2011: Yayyyy! Republican Darrell Issa, Chairman of the
House Oversight Committee (which
investigates government corruption) is keeping his home district busy
by securing millions of dollars for road and public works projects. I
guess it was just a complete coincidence that most of the work is planned
near properties Mr.
Issa owns. Uh-oh.

(67) 8-17-2011: Republicans Darrell Issa and Dennis Ross introduced a
bill in July that would accelerate the destruction
of the USPS and put all of its employees, hundreds of thousands of
good Americans, out of work.

Fuck Darrell Issa and fuck Dennis Ross! Fuck 'em until their ancestors rise from
the dead and beg forgiveness for ever having sired the malevolent little bastards.

(68) 8-19-2011: Hey, look! Good old Darrell Issa, Republican, has hired a guy
named Peter Haller to help effect new regulations for banks like Goldman Sachs.
Unfortunately, Mr. Heller used to be called Peter Simonyi when he was a vice
president for (wait for it) Goldman Sachs. Oh, you can bet you boots there's
nothing underhanded about hiding behind another name. Not a thing. Nada. Zip.
Zero.

Uh boy.

(69) 8-22-2011: The GOP has a new job-creation plan... to have one rammed down
their throats.

You see, the Democrats want to include a job-creation
trigger in the new Super Committee that will require the Republican Party
to vote either for or against it. To vote against it would be, uhhh, dumb but
I wouldn't put anything past our little conservative pals. Stay tuned.

(70) 8-24-2011: The GOP has been quiet on the job front lately so I have a request
of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry...

It doesn't have to be a large investment but at the very least you'd put a few
porn stars back on the cock, uh, I mean clock. Heck, if you're lucky they might
even name a new position after you, one that no doubt involves anal lube.

(71) 8-26-2011: Hey! It's our old pal Darrell Issa again, and he's hired a very
nice man named Kurt Bardella to work for him on the Oversight Committee... only
it's the same Kurt Bardella he fired five months ago for breach
of trust. Guess this leopard found some really effective spot remover.

(72) 8-29-2011: Suppose you have a job but you need help with your mortgage.
There's still $30 billion in the Troubled
Asset Relief Program but the GOP wants to re-route that money to the federal
deficit. This means more people will lose their homes and perhaps become homeless.
Eventually jobless. Nice work, GOP.

(73) 8-31-2011: When the GOP returns from vacation they plan on voting every
week to gut every government regulation within arm's reach because, you know, "regulation
costs jobs". What this means, of course, is that regulation has been proven
to actually create
jobs.

(74) 9-2-2011: After unbridled success wrecking the economy once again with their
'debt ceiling' stunt House and Senate Republicans are starting to mumble about
stalling the upcoming Highway
Bill, costing Americans almost 2 million jobs. (These bills have traditionally
been passed by overwhelming margins.)

(75) 9-3-2011: A recent CNN
poll reveals that those who self-identify as Republicans would rather the
president focus on jobs, not the deficit, by a margin of 54%-44%. So why has
the Republican Party not proposed one, single jobs bill in nine months?

Because they're not Republicans. They're shills for their corporate masters who
they can't WAIT to get another Republican stooge in the White House so they can
screw the American people all over again like they did from 2001-2009.

(76) 9-5-2011: The GOP is on a Labor Day break, which is sort of like atheists
enjoying Christmas services with the Pope, so not much in terms of job creation
is happening. For now, we'll just have to thank presidential candidate Mitt "Magic
Underpants" Romney for hiring all of the workers who will be laboring to
quadruple the size of his California beachfront
mansion.

(77) 9-6-2011: Michelle
Bachmann has a brilliant new answer for lots of high-paying jobs... slash
the corporate tax rate to zero.... except corporate America is already paying
an effective rate of zero. Even so, job creation is down the dumper. Back to
the Etch-A-Sketch, Michelle.

(78) 9-8-2011: Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, and Herman Cain have just announced
their jobs programs. It's tax cuts for the rich. Why didn't we think of this
before?

(79) 9-9-2011: Rick Perry wants to kill Social Security. He also wants to eliminate
the FDA, the FCC, the U.S. Post Office and just about every other federal employee
except soldiers, the Supreme Court and himself. It's kind of a jobs plan
if you long for the 12th century.

(80) 9-11-2011: On Friday President Obama outlined a job's plan that is seen
by economists as win-win. The Republican response to the program is to whine
about it.

(81) 9-12-2011: Not much governing today so I think I'll just make a little comparison...
which two types of professions do you think result in more jobs? Wall Street
commodity speculators or educators? And which group do you think the GOP is doing
its darndest to reduce in numbers?

(82) 9-14-2011: I gotta hand it to the GOP. In this bleak economy they've found
a way to increase jobs... in hospital emergency rooms. What they're doing is
trying to cut funding in the transportation bill for bike
paths and pedestrian walkways, thus ensuring more mayhem on our streets and
guaranteed employment for EMT workers. It's pure gee-nyuss I tells ya!

(83) 9-15-2011: Today the GOP-led House passed
a bill that would make it easier to fire union workers, union organizers,
or simply move jobs overseas in order to bust a union. In essence, an anti-jobs
bill.

(84) 9-16-2011: The government has provided loans that help the auto industry
create jobs, that helped keep the assembly of the Ford Focus and the Nissan Leaf
here in America. Republican Majority Leader Eric
Cantor plans to strip half that money to repair damage from Hurricane Irene...
in HIS district.

(85) 9-16-2011: President Obama is trying to fast
track job creation for a company called LightSquared and Republicans are
pissed, evidently because the employer had the nerve to donate to the Democratic
Party. He, uh, also donated to the Republican Party.

(86) 9-19-2011: Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor is back with a pithy statement
about Mr. Obama's jobs bill: "While an all or nothing approach might make
sense to some communicators, I hope the President realizes it would be better
to work together." This from a man whose job it is to say "No" to
anything the president proposes. I hope he gets a painful boil on his uvula.

(87) 9-21-2011: The House and Senate conducted no business on Monday and damned
little occurred today. The Jobs Jinx continues.

(88) 9-23-2011: Look! It's Darrell Issa, Republican chairman of the House Oversight
Committee, creating jobs. He's stumping for a huge loan package on behalf of
a company, Aptera, which makes electric cars. This is great news, especially
for the green economy, although I wonder if Mr. Issa would be so ecstatic if
the company in question wasn't a major
contributor to his campaigns.

Oops.

One more thing... the day after sending the glowing recommendation to the Energy
Department Mr. Issa conducted a hearing entitled "How Obama’s Green
Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs." Double-oops.

(89) 9-26-2011: The GOP is being suspiciously quiet so I want to take this opportunity
to show you just how badly the Bush administration fucked-over the American people.
Here's a chart of the GNP for this country over the past 60 years:

See that massive drop in 2008, the only drop in over 60 years? That's the Bush
administration shedding jobs in this country hand over fist, just so the could
have the corporate-owned media blame Mr. Obama.

As you can see the GNP has recovered and business in this country is doing fine
but they're not hiring and they're not going to hire until Mr. Obama is gone.
It's not enough for the Koch's of this world to reap absurd
profits. They want it all.

(90) 9-28-2011: In a way the GOP has found a way to employ more Americans as
they've
proposed
a
bill
that
would
force
authorities
to
deport
undocumented
immigrant women who are victims
of domestic violence and come to them for help. This means more cook, maid,
field-hand, and day-care jobs for honest Americans.

(91) 9-30-2011: Here's a novel way that the GOP creates fewer jobs; Refusing
to appoint
federal judges. Only 62% of Mr. Obama's choice of judges (A record glacial
pace) have been approved so far and some have had to undergo the process
for over a year. As far as the GOP is concerned, the only good activist judge
is a Republican-appointed activist judge.

(93) 10-5-2011: Today was the day the president's jobs' bill was introduced.
It was blocked by not one, not two, but three parliamentary
procedures by the GOP. They, of course, have the right to do that but the
least the little bastards could do is create a jobs plan of their own as a counter-move.
But they can't do that as it would expose them for the progress-blocking charlatans
they are.

(94) 10-7-2011: The Republicans are thumping their chests in response to the
President's jobs bill, hooting about the six jobs creation bills that they've
passed and which are currently
stalled
in
the
Senate. But, y'see, there's good
reason for them to be stalled. As in, they don't create jobs.

(95) 10-10-2011: Here is what the GOP is trying to
get you to believe: As long as the country continues
to shed
jobs it will
eventually create
jobs.

(96) 10-12-2011: Hey! Look at that! The GOP voted down
President Obama's jobs
bill. Good thing they had another jobs bill of
their own ready to.... Oh, they didn't? Really? What
a shock.

The GOP isn't really that stupid and they don't think the public is really that
stupid, they're just not going to do anything that might help the economy.

(97) 10-14-2011: For the GOP, a day without dooming women to a horrible
death is like a day without sunshine.

On the bright side, the GOP unveiled a jobs
bills... if by "jobs" you mean destroying the environment, excising
unions, off-shoring jobs, and making the rich even richer.

(98) 10-17-2011: Amtrak, for all its faults, carried a record number of riders
last year, indicating an undeniable need for its service. Naturally, the GOP
wants to cut
its funding off at the knees, possibly resulting in killing it altogether.
But who cares, right? Rich people don't ride public transportation.

(99) 10-19-2011: The House is on vacation this week so the Tea Party Nation is
rising to the challenge of job-creation by, uh, demanding that businesses
stop hiring. In their constipated little minds they feel that this will teach
President
Obama a lesson for being a socialist, or a dictator, or.... something.

(100) 10-21-2011: The Washington Post is firmly in the Republican bag, but even
they came
right out and called the Republican jobs bill "ludicrous".

(101) 10-24-2011: The GOP is still on vacation but that doesn't stop Republican
congressman Paul Ryan from rolling up his sleeves and trying to cut
Pell Grants. He thinks they're a scam even though he himself used government
money to put himself through
college. Thanks a heap, ya hypocrite.

(102) 10-31-2011: A new report revels that GOP "job-creating" spending
cuts resulted in the loss of 370,000 jobs. Gosh, who'd-a-thunk?

So what does the GOP spend the day doing? They voted to reaffirm that "In
God We Trust" is the national motto, just in case someone missed the
point that they no longer give a crap about doing anything useful.

(106) 11-9-2011: One of the first things the GOP did after gaining the House
after the 2010 mid-terms was change
the schedule so that they'd work fewer days, only 109 days the entire year.
(The average sucker works 258 days a year.) The House will be in session only
16 more days the rest of the year. Now you know why nothing gets done.

(107) 11-11-2011: The so-called "Super Committee" is trying to find
ways to cut the deficit, but the Republicans on the Committee want to make the Bush
tax cuts permanent, which would only makes things worse. Nice going, ya pinheads.

(108) 11-14-2011: The House and Senate are on hiatus but presidential candidates
Gingrich, Bachmann, and Perry want to, respectively, start a war against Iran,
make America like China, and turn nuclear regulation over to the equivalent of
McDonalds.

(109) 11-16-2011: The House is wasting your time pushing a bill that makes it
even
easier
for
people
to carry
concealed weapons from state-to-state. Can you say "Raw-Meat-Dog- Whistle?".
Can you also say "Gabrielle Giffords?"

(110) 11-18-2011: The House is once again considering the "Balanced Budget
Amendment", which sounds almost reasonable until you learn it could cost
millions of jobs. Oy vey.

(111) 11-21-2011: The Republican half of the Supercommittee refuses to give up
the Bush tax cuts. As long as the 1% keeps raking in the dough everyone else
will suffer, and they just LOVE that.

(112) 11-23-2011: Though Newt Gingrich couldn't be elected dog-catcher, much
less Chief Executive, he's shedding light on the next Great Frontier in GOP job
creation... child
labor. Yes, according to dear old Newt the little bastards have had it too
easy all these years. That's nuclear class-warfare, folks.

(113) 11-25-2011: Rick Santorum, candidate for president, succinctly reminds
us why the GOP isn't interested in creating jobs. It's because poor people are supposed
to suffer, and making people suffer is the Christian thing to do.

(114) 11-28-2011: Thanksgiving holiday. Lots of football and turkey, not so much
job-creation. See you Wednesday.

(116) 12-2-2011: The GOP just killed the payroll tax roll-back, which
means they just raised taxes on anyone who gets a paycheck. This also
means more money out of the pockets of the Average Joe and fewer jobs
as there's less money to go around. I'll bet Speaker Boehner is just
crying his eyes out.

(117) 12-5-2011: The GOP's idea to pay for the payroll tax cut is to
cut food stamps and unemployment benefits by pitching it as a way to
punish people making over a million dollars. I
kid you not.

(118) 12-7-2011: The GOP is wasting time gearing-up to oppose the nomination
of Richard
Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, even
though Mr. Cordray will probably be appointed during congressional recess.

(119) 12-9-2011: The U.S. Postal Service is going to cut 28,000
jobs because the Republican Party passed
a law in 2006 requiring the PO to fund 75 years of retiree benefits
in just ten years.

Fuck you, GOP, and damn you to Hell.

(120) 12-12-2011: Nearly 15% of workers are projected
to be unemployed at some point in 2012. Way to keep that laser-like focus
on jobs, GOP.

(121) 12-14-2011: The House spent the day passing a payroll tax-cut extension
bill which, because it's packed to the gills with poison pills, has no chance
of escaping the Senate alive. The little bastards knew it and passed the bill
anyway just so they can say the Democrats vetoed a payroll tax-cut bill.

(122) 12-16-2011: Today the House wasted time debating the excremental SOPA bill,
but it was ultimately tabled until the 16th. Call your congressman now and demand
he oppose this wretched bit of legislation.

(123) 12-19-2011: The GOP is getting the hell out of Dodge for the holidays,
but a quick accounting of their first year in charge of the House reveals they
voted a record 191 times against
environmental protection laws. That's almost one vote for every day they
were in session. Yuck!

(124) 12-21-2011: Today the House leadership rejected without vote a Payroll
Tax Cut bill that the Senate and House would have overwhelmingly voted for. If
you need any further proof that the only thing the GOP cares about is how badly
it can ruin the economy, this is it.

Wow. Just... wow.

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Non-Job Creation Actions of 2012:

1-2-2012: Congress will return to session on January 17th. They
will work for six whole days this month. Must be nice. Don't expect much Federal
job creation during this period.

1-18-2012: Here we GO!
On Tuesday, the 17th, the House selected
a new, as-yet-unnamed, Sergeant-At-Arms. On the 18th the House will attempt,
and fail, to vote down Mr. Obama's request
for a debt increase. The House will then adjourn until Monday.

1-20-2012: Congress is in recess until Monday. Have a nice weekend, everyone,
and enjoy your food stamps.

1-23-2012: Not much today. Just a panel discussion on doing
business with the military, plus some GOP shenanigans called the Legally Binding
Budget Act of 2011. Simply put, it's an attempt to make the president culpable
for lousy budgets.

1-25-2012: John Boehner claims that the GOP passed 30 jobs bills
in the past session of Congress. Well, they passed 30 "somethings" but
they certainly had little to do with job creation. Follow the link and laugh.

1-27-2012: The House held hearings on Wednesday trying to cut
retirement benefits for federal employees. They also redefined what an "aircraft" is.
They then took Thursday off.

1-30-2012: On Friday, the 27th, the House was in session for
a whole four minutes. Aaaaand, the House is basically in recess until the
1st
of
February.

2-1-2012: On Tuesday, the 31st, the House voted on a motion
to consider the repeal of the CLASS Program, part of the Affordable Health Care
Act aimed at helping low-income citizens get health care. It passed on party
lines. Don't expect it to escape the Senate.

2-3-2012: The House proposed a bill that keeps welfare
recipients out of strip clubs, casinos, and liquor stores. The actual purpose
of the bill was to have Democrats vote against it so that their Republican opponents
can claim Democrats are FOR such nonsense. The bill passed 395-27 but it will
die in the Senate, so ha-ha-ha, GOP.

2-6-2012: Last week House Republicans approved
language for debate on two bills that would gut Federal programs without
having to pass specific legislation. This would, essentially, equal more tax
cuts for big business.

2-8-2012: The consistent upward trend in employment numbers
would seem to be an excellent time for the GOP to bathe in glory as shepherds
of the economy. But even though they've done absolutely nothing to increase employment
for the past year all they can do is grumble that "More
should be done". For once, they're right.

2-10-2012: House Republican's are watering down the insider
trading bill so that Democrats will vote against it. Thus, come November,
our GOP pals can say that Democrats are actually for insider
trading. What more could we expect from these useless conservative sleezeballs?

2-13-2012: Today there will be exactly one hearing about "exploring
all energy options." It should be called "exploring oil energy options."

2-15-2012: So which party has introduced "the most partisan" and "worst
transportation bill [Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood] has seen in 35
years?"

Go on... guess.

2-17-2012: The House will presumably vote on and pass the payroll
tax extension today. Then they'll leave town for ten days in order to celebrate
Presidents Day. Cushy gig.

2-26-2012: Congress is out this week on an extended Presidents
Day vacation. Between now and April they're going to take four weeks off. Who
the heck made this ridiculous schedule? (Hint: The majority party in the House.
The idea being that less Congress is in session, the less gets done.) No jobs
were created.

2-27-2012: Congress is back in action and today they'll be considering
H.R. 4078, "The Regulatory Freeze of Jobs Act of 2012." It's worse
than it sounds as its intent is "to provide that no agency may take any
significant regulatory action until the unemployment rate is equal to or less
than 6.0 percent." Cue the sad trombone sound. No jobs were created.

2-29-2012: The House failed to pass the Research
Works Act, which would have prohibitied federal agencies from releasing the
result of taxpayer-funded research. No jobs were created.

3-2-2012: Yesterday the House spent most of the day debating
and passing the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act. Meanwhile,
in the Senate, Democrats, plus Olympia Snowe, fended
off the execrable Blunt Amendment. Meanwhile, Speaker
Boehner vows to continue contraception
fight. Because it's all about jobs. No jobs were
created.

3-5-2012: On Thursday, the 1st of
March, the House unanimously voted to allow itself
to give oral histories of the civil rights era, then
condemned Iran for finding one of its citizens guilty
of apostasy.
The House then took Friday off.
No jobs were created.

3-7-2012: On
Monday the House spent two whole hours naming two federal
buildings and a post office. Then adjourned for the
day. On Tuesday they spent the day shuffling paper
regarding a Bureau of Reclamation bill involving hydropower
development. No jobs were created.

3-9-2012: The House spent all day
Thursday debating H.R. 3606, the "Jumpstart Our
Business Startups (JOBS) Act". It is better known
as the "Reopening American Capital Markets to
Emerging Growth Companies Act". What it actually
is, is a financial market deregulation bill. What it
REALLY is, is a fake jobs bill. No jobs were created.

3-12-2012: Last Friday members of
the House attended a hearing in Saranac Lake, NY, to
discuss a farm bill. No jobs were created.

On Monday the House has scheduled a single hearing on (Are you ready?) "Explosion
of Federal Regulations Threatening Jobs and Economic Survival in the West"...
in Elko Nevada. DAMN those regulations! No jobs were
created.

3-14-2012: The House is in another recess until
Tuesday, the 20th of March. (The GOP wrote this schedule. It was designed to
ensure that as little legislation would get done as possible.) No jobs were created.

3-19-2012: The House is theoretically in session. They're back
in Washington but nothing much is scheduled this week except for hearings. They
might as well be painting their bedroom's black and listening to Led Zeppelin
albums. No jobs were created.

3-21-2012: On Monday, the 19th, the House was called to order
at
4PM.
They
then spent the next four hours arguing a bill that would allow Israeli nationals
to receive nonimmigrant visas. No jobs were created.

On Tuesday, the 20th, the House convened at Noon. They then spent the balance
of
the
day
arguing over the disposition of a parcel of land in Accomack County, Virginia.
No jobs were created.

3-23-2012: For the past two days the House has been debating
H.R. 5, the "HEALTH" bill, which is actually about tort reform. No
jobs were created.

3-26-2012: The House took last Friday off. No jobs were created.

3-28-2012: The House debated FCC transparency, baby monitors,
and a transportation bill but nothing of note passed. No jobs were created, either.

3-30-2012: The House voted to end Medicare, again, but at least
they signed a 90-day extension to the transportation bill. No jobs were created.

4-2-2012: The House vacated the premises early last Friday and
won't be back in session until the 16th of April. No jobs will be created.

4-9-2012: The House has scheduled a series of hearings for the
next two weeks. No jobs will be created.

4-16-2012: The House is back in session but it's mostly just
nuts-and-bolts stuff this week. Although a vote on another corporate tax cut
bill (H.R. 9) is in the offing.

4-18-2012: The House voted down the Buffet Rule, awarded Lena
Horne a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal, then argued the rest of the day
about rules to "enhance" hunting, fishing, and shooting. No jobs were
created.

4-20-2012: The House passed "The Small Business Tax Cut
Act" (H.R. 9) but they might as well have named the bill "Ponies For
Everyone" because it wasn't
about small business, and it will never pass the Senate. No jobs were created
today.

4-23-2012: The House was in pro forma session. No jobs were created.

4-25-2012: The House spent the day dealing with the legislative
version of cleaning their room. In this case it meant passing bills that dealt
with adjustments to the boundaries of parklands, land swaps, and the like. No
jobs, or anything remotely like them, were created.

4-27-2012: The House pased a couple of suspension bills (The
DATA Act and the Small Business Credit Availability Act). They also passed CISPA,
which is distressing, but the prez has promised a veto. Looking forward to that.
Oh, and no jobs were created.

4-30-2012: On Friday the House approved a bill that lowers the
interest on student loans, but tacked on a rider which guts the Health Care Act.
It's designed to result in a presidential veto, at which point Republicans can
claim that Mr. Obama doesn't care about student loans.

5-2-2012: The House is in recess until 5-7-2012. No jobs will
be created.

5-9-2012: The House is back in session but they only passed
a handful of suspension bills. No jobs were created.

5-11-2012: The GOP-led House passed several bills that denied
the Obama administration funds to fight for progesssive issues. Read
the dismal details here. No jobs were created even though Speaker Boehner
again claimed the GOP had a tight focus on jobs... when being specifically
asked about why his party is passing so much anti-gay legislation. Fuck this
guy.

5-14-2012: Last Thursday the House passed the Sequestration
Replacement Act, designed to fatten the Pentagon coffers at the expense of the
elderly and the poor. It is destined to die in the Senate. No Jobs were created.

5-16-2012: The House was not in session on Monday, but on Tuesday
the legislators busied themselves passing noncontroversial suspension bills.
Ho-hum. No jobs were created, but you already knew that.

5-18-2012: The House passed a watered-down Violence Against
Women Act. Basically, if you're an immigrant or a native American woman you're
fair game for any sadist. They'll pass a major defense funding bill tomorrow
and then
will
take
the
next week off. No jobs were created.

5-21-2012: On Friday the House passed a bloated defense spending
bill, even though they were obligated to cut defense spending as part of the
Super Committee agreement. Not only did the new bill include discriminitory
language it also included an amendment allowing the government to institute propaganda against
the American people. The president has vowed to veto this bill. No jobs were
created unless you count the military contractors rolling in effluent streams
of your tax dollars.

5-23-2012: Say it with me now: "The House is in recess
until the 30th. Must be nice to have so many vacations. Oh, how I hate those
indolent
GOP swine."

6-1-2012: Another day, another abortion bill. This time the "Susan
B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act." Which
was designed to stop abortions based on sex or race. Seriously. It failed. Apart
from that bit of nonsense the day was one long last-minute rush to pass bills
that pay the bills. No jobs were created.

6-4-2012: Last Friday three Democratic (Hahn, Kaptur, Tonko)
amendments to increase funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy
failed, while three Republican (Hultgren, Chaffetz, McClintock) amendments to
reduce funding of energy efficiency and renewable energy also failed. No jobs
were created.

6-6-2012: The House was not in session on Monday but on Tuesday
it spent the day amending water and energy bills, mostly shuffling money from
one account to another. It was not a job creating event.

6-8-2012: The House passed a bill to repeal a new exise tax
on medical
devices. The GOP refers to this as a "jobs bill". A waste of time
as the Senate will not consider the bill.

In the meantime the GOP is still losing its shit over lightbulbs,
voting to restrict funding for the application of energy-efficient lighting (Which
are manufactured in Hell itself.) No jobs were created.

6-13-2012: The House is in recess until the 18th of June. And,
before you ask, no jobs were created.

6-20-2012: The past two days have seen nothing fancy from the
House. Just a couple of suspension bills and some laws aimed at American Indians.
No attempt was made to create jobs.

6-22-2012: The clusterfuck that is the Republican-led House
of Representatives spent much time dawdling over the transportation bill, the
only meaningful jobs bill under consideration. (Don't get your panties twsited
about the "jobs" part of this bill. This same bill sails thorugh the
House every year... unless Barack Obama is president.)

6-25-2012: The House adjourned on Friday, the 22nd. No jobs
were
created.

6-27-2012: The House was not in session Monday but was in session
until
almost
11:30
Tuesday
night. Nothing got done. They couldn't even agree to name four post offices.
No jobs were created.

6-29-2012: On Thursday, the 28th, the House passed several Homeland
Security bills, named a couple of post offices, and voted to hold U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder in contempt of.... something because the right-wing base
is screaming for blood and they must be appeased. No jobs were created.

7-2-2012: On Friday, the 29th, the House grudgingly passed the
Transportation Bill, which has never been a problem up until now, and mortgaged
the future of college graduates. No jobs were created.

The House is now adjourned until the 9th of July.

7-11-2012: The House spent the entire day Tuesday debating the
repeal of the Affordable Care Act. This is the 33rd time in 18 months that they've
tried this. According to the Congression Research Service these votes have cost
the tax-payers $50 million
dollars. No jobs were even remotely created.

7-13-2012: On Wednesday, the 11th, the House voted for repeal
of the Affordable Care Act, then stopped to discuss golf. I
am not kidding. No jobs were created.

7-16-2012: Having failed to ACTUALLY repeal the Affordable Care
Act the House took Friday the 13th off, 'cause it's SCAAAAARY. No jobs were created.

7-18-2012: The House was in recess on Monday the 16th. On the
17th it passed both a Department of State appropriations bill and the Insular
Areas Act of 2011. (Insular areas are, generally speaking, small islands which
the U.S. claims for itself.)

7-20-2012: The House spent the 18th and 19th debating the massive
Defense
Appropriations Bill. No jobs were created.

7-23-2012: The House spent Friday the 20th debating the massive
Defense
Appropriations Bill. No jobs were created.

7-25-2012: The House spent the 23th and 24th marking time until
the August recess debating various suspension bills (requires a 2/3 vote), one
of which prohibits the issuance of new regulations on business until the unemployment
rate falls below 6%. Need I add which party authored such a nonsensical piece
of tripe?

7-27-2012: On Wednesday the 25th the House voted to require
a full audit of the Federal Reserve. On Thursday the 26th the House spent most
of the day passing amendments for suspension bills, plus one whole hour to fix one
typo.

7-30-2012: The House took last Friday, the 27th, off because
it was SUCH a tough week accomplishing nothing.

8-1-2012: The House was in recess Monday the 30th. On the 31st
they took votes on three bills. One was to reduce executive positions subject
to Senate approval and one was to make tax delinquents ineligible for federal
jobs. These were essentially job-reducing bills, so of course they both passed.
The third was an anti-abortion bill. It failed. Negative jobs were created.

8-3-2012: On Wednesday, the 1st, the House passed a series of
suspension rules and eventually voted down a revision of the Bush tax cuts that
would have taxed earners making over $250k.

On Thursday, the 2nd, the House passed a resolution that said the government
should keep its grubby mitts off the internet.

The House will now be in recess for the next five weeks.

9-10-12 & 9-11-12: The House is finally back in session
and the past two days have seen a flurry of voting on various bills, but they
all ended on the same note:

"Motion to reconsider laid on the table and Agreed to without objection."

Meaning "Okay, we voted for this turkey but we're going to give it old skunk-eye
once more before passing it along to the Senate."

9-12-12: The House passed bills to: extend the FISA Act, promote
competitiveness in American manufacturing (don't
get excited), and a land swap in Minnesota. No jobs were created.

9-13-12: The House passed nothing today, and for the
first time in modern history, in the midst of a terrible drought, the
House will not pass a Farm Bill. Not only have no jobs been created but
our nation's farmers are going bankrupt. No jobs were created

9-14-12: The House reauthorized the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, then limited taxpayer exposure to a 2005
Energy Policy Act. No jobs were created.

9-17&18-2012: The House took the first two days
of this week off, because they CAN. No jobs were created.

9-19-12: The
House approved: funding for Colordo fish recovery, Mescalero Apache's
right to lease water rights, passage of an Iranian boogey-man rule, meaningless
lip music to Georgia (Asia), a pancreatic cancer initiative, astronauts
right to retain personal artififacts, improved fiduciaries of veterans,
donations by tax-payers to the IRS, freeing dead veterasn from educational
debt, change in interest rates for the Small Business Act, the tracking
of cross-border violence, aid to Burma, banned Chinese drywall, provisions
for a National Pediatric Research Network, and the easing of rules to
allow veterans to become EMTs. No jobs were created.

9-20-2012: The
House approved:
limiting the Secretary of the Interiors authority to issue regulations untils
December of 2012, plus several incomprehensible child welfare bills. No jobs
were created.

9-21-12: The House approved the "Stop
the War on Coal Act". I needn't remind you how pointlessly absurd this
bill was. No jobs were created.

9-24-12: The House took the day off. No jobs were created.

9-25-12: The House played a little game called "Hmm,
I wonder what they're doing in the Senate today?" Otherwise, bupkis.
No jobs were created.

9-26-12: The House took the day off. No jobs were created.

9-27-12: The House took the day off. No jobs were created.

9-28-12: The House passed three bills regarding privacy and
security issues. No jobs were created.

10-1-12 through 10-5-12: The House is taking the week off. No
jobs were created.

11-13-12: The House passed a bill that limits U.S. participation
in a European emissions trading scheme (S. 1956), and passed another
bill that transfers certain functions from the GAO to the Department
of Labor (H.R. 6371). No Jobs were created.

11-14-12: Amended the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H.R. 6570), amended
the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (H.R. 6116), amended a
rule pertaining to tropical possessions relating to bootleg cigarettes
(H.R. 5934). No jobs were created.

11-15-12: The entire day was spent debating the modification of rules
for the importation of products from the Federation of Moldova (H.R.
6156). No jobs were created.

11-16-12: Passed a bill modifying the rules for the importation of products
from the Federation of Moldova (H.R. 6156). No jobs were created.

The House is now in recess until the 26th of November.

11-26-12: The House pledged unwavering support for the state of Israel.
(Man, that took some guts.) They're also still talking about Moldova.
Who cares about Moldova? No jobs were created.

11-28-12: The House named six post offices and two federal buildings.
That's ALL they did the entire day. No jobs were created.

11-29-12: The House debated and ultimately failed to pass a minor immigration
bill. They then went home early. No jobs were created.

11-30-12: The House passed H.R. 6429, "To amend the Immigration
and Nationality Act to promote innovation, investment, and research in
the United States, to eliminate the diversity immigrant program, and
for other purposes." No jobs were created.

12-3-12: The House spent forty minutes discussing a bill to amend the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. That's all they did. No jobs were created.

12-4-12: The House granted permanent resident status to six people and
referred an energy efficiency bill (H.R. 6852) to committee. No jobs
were created.

12-5-12: The House agreed to keep the internet out of the clutches of
the U.N., struck the word "lunatic" from federal law, and made
revisions in title 36 of the United States Code.

12-6-12: The House took the day off. No jobs were created.

12-7-12: The House piddled around waiting to see what the Senate was
up to, eventually calling it a day just before lunch. No jobs were created.

12-11-12: The assembled House rolled into work at 2PM, then adjourned
until 6:30. They then shuffled their feet until 9PM. No jobs were created.

12-12-12: The House passed the Eliminate Privacy Notice Confusion Act
(H.R. 5817), failed to pass the Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012 (H.R.
6190), passed the No-Hassle Flying Act of 2012 (S. 3542), passed the
DART Act (S. 1998), passed the Frank Buckles World War I Memorial Act
(H.R. 6364), passed a bill that "Designated the ranking of a certain
named Member of a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives" (H.
Res.830). No jobs were created.

12-13-12: THe speaker of the House appointed conferees to oversee the
nit-picking of Senate-passed bills. No jobs were created.

12-14-12: The House Took the day off. No jobs were created.

12-17-12: The House authorized the issuance of right-of-way permits for
natural gas pipelines in Glacier National Park (H.R. 4606), passed a
bill making technical corrections to the legal description of land held
in trust by the Mission Indians (S. 3193). The Hlouse also condemned
the attacks in Newton, Connecticut (H. Res. 833). No jobs were created.

12-18-12: The House extended the visa of Sopuruchi Chukwueke. No jobs
were created.

12-19-12: The House agreed to authorize a revised edition of House rules,
passed the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act (s. 1440) passed the Medicare
IVIG Access Act (H.R. 1845), named three courthouses, six post offices,
and two veterans affiars offices. Amended the Hatch Act, amended title5
of the U.S. code (H.R. 6016). no jobs were created.

12-20-12: The House named five post offices and two veterans affairs
offices. Passed the Spending Reduction Act (H.R. 6684). No jobs were
created.